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Books by Paul Shepard
  | | Man in the Landscape(Reprint) A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature by Paul Shepard, Dave Foreman, Shepard/Foreman Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2440-1, ISBN: 0-8203-2440-X "A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of techno ..." |
 | | Nature and Madness(1st Edition) by Paul Shepard, C. L. Rawlins Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1980-3, ISBN: 0-8203-1980-5 "Does any species other than the human befoul its nest, destroy the habitat on which it depends? Strangely, yes; such shortsightedness happens in the natural world all the time. But no species does so with as much conscious awareness, a matter that fascinated the philosopher Paul Shepard. In Nature and Madness he examines the human animal in relation to the natural environment, showing the kinds of psychic disjunctions and troubles that ..." |
 | | Thinking Animals Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence by Paul Shepard, Max Oelschlaeger Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1982-7, ISBN: 0-8203-1982-1 "What can animals teach humans? Everything, writes the environmental philosopher Paul Shepard, and he's not being hyperbolic. In Shepard's view, it was through the observation and emulation of animals that humans developed their abilities to communicate. The development of the brain and larynx depended on accidents of biology, on bipedalism and upright posture. But more, their development both hinged on and reinforced the desire o ..." |
 | | The s How Animals Made Us Human by Paul Shepard Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1997 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55963-434-2, ISBN: 1-55963-434-0 "Paul Shepard has been one of the most brilliant and original thinkers in the field of human evolution and ecology for more than forty years. His thought-provoking ideas on the role of animals in human thought, dreams, personal identity, and other psychological and religious contexts have been presented in a series of seminal writings, including "Thinking Animals," "The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game," and now "The Others," his mos ..." |
 | | Coming Home to the Pleistocene by Paul Shepard, Florence R. Shepard Hardcover, 206 Pages, Published 1998 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55963-589-9, ISBN: 1-55963-589-4 ""When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams, we will be on the way to a long overdue reconciliation between opposites which are of our own making." --from Coming Home to the Pleistocene Paul Shepard was one of the most profound an ..." |
 | | Traces of an Omnivore(1st Edition) by Paul Shepard, Jack Turner Hardcover, 255 Pages, Published 1996 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55963-431-1, ISBN: 1-55963-431-6 "Paul Shepard is one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. He has helped define the field of human ecology, and has played a vital role in the development of what have come to be known as environmental philosophy, ecophilosophy, and deep ecology -- new ways of thinking about human-environment interactions that ultimately hold great promise for healing the bonds between humans and the natural world. Traces of an Omnivore ..." |
 | | The Others(1st Edition) How Animals Made Us Human by Paul Shepard Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 1995 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55963-433-5, ISBN: 1-55963-433-2 "Paul Shepard has been one of the most brilliant and original thinkers in the field of human evolution and ecology for more than forty years. His thought-provoking ideas on the role of animals in human thought, dreams, personal identity, and other psychological and religious contexts have been presented in a series of seminal writings, including Thinking Animals, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, and now The Others, his most eloq ..." |
 | | The Sacred Paw(1st Edition) The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature by Paul Shepard, Barry Sanders Hardcover, 243 Pages, Published 1985 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-15133-2, ISBN: 0-670-15133-5 "Images of bears are as current in our culture as were the myths and legends about bears that formed a crucial part of early societies.With special attention to these powerful and dynamic bears of legend and ritual, The Sacred Paw links these images to the different species of bears and their remarkable biology, and explores how our images of bears reflect our relationship to life, society, and survival." |
 | | Subversive Science(1st Edition) Essays Towards an Ecology of Man by Paul Shepard, Daniel Mckinley Paperback, 453 Pages, Published 1969 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-05399-7, ISBN: 0-395-05399-4 "Book by Paul Shepard, Daniel McKinley" |
 | | Where We Belong Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature by Paul Shepard, Kenneth Helphand, Florence Rose Shepard, Kenneth I. Helphand Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3345-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3345-X "Gathered here in book form for the first time, the fourteen essays in Where We Belong exemplify Paul Shepard's interdisciplinary approach to human interaction with the natural world. Drawn from Shepard's entire career and presented chronologically, these pieces vary in setting from the Hudson River to the American prairie to New Zealand. Equally impressive is Shepard's spatial range, as he moves from subtle differences to grand designs, ..." |
 | | Where We Belong Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature (Hardback) by Paul Shepard, Foreword-Kenneth Helphand, Florence R. Shepard Hardcover, 255 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2420-3, ISBN: 0-8203-2420-5 "Gunter H. Lenz and Kurt L. Shell. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986. Price, Uvedale. Essays on the Picturesque. Vol. 2. London: n.p., 1810. Rapoport, Amos. “ Australian Aborigines and the Definition of Place.” In Environmental Design: Research Practice, ed. William Mitchell. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972. Reading, Pierson Barton. “Journal of Pierson Barton Reading in His Journey of One Hundred Twenty-three Days Acros ..." |
 | | Thinking Animals(1st Edition) by Paul Shepard Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 1978 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-670-70061-5, ISBN: 0-670-70061-4 "In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination. This trait, he argues, compels us to think of animals in order to be human. Without other living species by which t ..." |
 | | The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game(1st Edition) by Paul Shepard, Fons Van Woerkom Hardcover, 302 Pages, Published 1973 by Charles Scribner's Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-684-12772-9, ISBN: 0-684-12772-5 "In what may be his boldest and most controversial book, Paul Shepard presents an account of human behavior and ecology in light of our past. In it, he contends that agriculture is responsible for our ecological decline and looks to the hunting and gathering lifestyle as a model more closely in tune with our essential nature. Shepard advocates affirming the profound and beautiful nature of the hunter and gatherer, redefining agriculture ..." |
 | | Reinventing Nature?(2nd Edition) Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction by Gary Lease, Albert Borgmann, Kathryn Hayles, David Graber, Donald Worster, Paul Shepard, Alan Gussow, Michael E. Soule, Gary Paul Nabhan, Michale E. Soule, Contributor-Alan Gussow, Contributor-Gary Paul... Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 1995 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55963-311-6, ISBN: 1-55963-311-5 "How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be "reinvented" through theme parks and malls, or through restoration?"Reinventing Nature?" is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions and conceptions of nature affect both the individual experience and society's management of nature. Leading thinkers from a variety of fie ..." |
 | | Healing Energies(2nd Edition) A System of Preventing Disease by Studying the Blueprint of the Body by Dr Stephen Paul Shepard, O. K. Nambiar, Steven P. Shepard Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 1981 by Woodland Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-913923-46-7, ISBN: 0-913923-46-X "The fact that some form of biologic energy is involved in human disease and health has been appreciated in many cultures in the past. Unfortunately, this concept is now shrouded in mystery and is not appreciated by the modern scientific medical community. With the advent , however, of new field theory physics, initiated by Bohr, Einstein, Plank and others, an entirely new appreciation of the link between energy and matter has occurred i ..." |
 | | Nature and Madness by Paul Shepard Hardcover, Published by Random House Inc (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-7924-8205-5, ISBN: 0-7924-8205-0 |
 | | The Others How Animals Made Us Human by Paul Shepard 384 Pages, Published 2013 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61091-243-3, ISBN: 1-61091-243-8 "Man, trapped in the archons' physical world, was ordealed by water and fire, the water from the serpentine, a seven-headed demon of desire, defiling its host. Earth and sky demons, combined as the snake-bodied dragon with the lion's face , must be “fought” with fasting and virginity. ... Each gate requires a password or else the soul returns to earth in the form of that animal guarding the gate. In the Old ..." |
 | | Traces of an Omnivore by Paul Shepard 255 Pages, Published 2013 by Island Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61091-396-6, ISBN: 1-61091-396-5 "But it was control, not acquiescence to this great round, that the agriculturalists sought. In the Neolithic, says Wilhelm Dupre, “The individual no longer stands as a whole vis-a-vis the life-community in the sense that the latter finds its realization ..." |
 | | The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game by Paul Shepard 302 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4232-0, ISBN: 0-8203-4232-7 "McKeown, T. “Early Environmental Influences on the Development of Intelligence ," British Medical Bulletin, 27:48 (1971). Model], Arnold H. Object Love and Reality. New York: International Universities Press, 1968. . “The Transitional Object and the Creative Act,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 39:2 (1970). Money-Kryle, R. E. Man's Picture of His World. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1961. Montague, Ashley. The Natural Superiority of Women. N ..." |
 | | Thinking Animals Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence by Paul Shepard 274 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4234-4, ISBN: 0-8203-4234-3 "The characters in the Reynard stories all seem hopelessly narrowed by their animal mien. The treatment of human situations by animal stereotypes may be taken as sarcasm or cynicism where the individual is bound to a life that is mean, ugly, ..." |
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